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| author | Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org> | 2015-08-18 23:07:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org> | 2015-08-18 23:07:31 +0200 |
| commit | 1d946c47fced8134d144a32da85a85f5183f71a9 (patch) | |
| tree | a18e137657a1f8323db96cf2fb492a531a03015b | |
| parent | cefc90357a8a2f20df7d15f29d2c4847330418ca (diff) | |
update README, add basic info at the top
hopefully this will make it easier to see the most important info first.
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 60 |
1 files changed, 51 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -4,6 +4,56 @@ sfeed v0.9 Simple RSS and Atom parser (and some format programs). +Build and install +----------------- + +Using make (respects $DESTDIR and $PREFIX): + +$ make +# make install + + +Usage +----- + +Initial setup: + + mkdir -p "$HOME/.sfeed/feeds" + cp sfeedrc.example "$HOME/.sfeed/sfeedrc" + cp style.css "$HOME/.sfeed/" + +Edit the feeds: + + $EDITOR "$HOME/.sfeed/sfeedrc" + +or you you can use sfeed_opml_import to import your existing +subscriptions from OPML format: + + sfeed_opml_import < file.opml > "$HOME/sfeed/sfeedrc" + +Update feeds: + + sfeed_update + +Format feeds, put this in some update script: +Plain-text list: + + sfeed_plain $HOME/.sfeed/feeds/* > "$HOME/.sfeed/feeds.txt" + +HTML view (no frames), copy style.css for a default style: + + sfeed_html $HOME/.sfeed/feeds/* > "$HOME/.sfeed/feeds.html" + +HTML view with frames and content, copy style.css for a default style: + + mkdir -p "$HOME/.sfeed/frames" + cd "$HOME/.sfeed/frames" && sfeed_frames $HOME/.sfeed/feeds/* + + +See the section "Usage and examples" below and the man-pages for more +information how to use sfeed and the additional tools. + + Dependencies ------------ @@ -38,7 +88,7 @@ Files ----- sfeed - Binary (from sfeed.c); read XML RSS or Atom feed data from - stdin. Write feed data in tab-separated format to stdout. + stdin. Write feed data in TAB-separated format to stdout. sfeed_frames - Format feed data (TSV) to HTML file(s) with frames. sfeed_html - Format feed data (TSV) to HTML. sfeed_opml_export - Generate an OPML XML file from a sfeedrc config file. @@ -111,14 +161,6 @@ CAVEATS: - HTML in titles is not supported on purpose. -Build and install ------------------ - -Using make (respects $DESTDIR and $PREFIX): - -make install - - Usage and examples ------------------ |